Scratch Pad: Teensy, Lowe, Athena

At the end of each week, I usually collate a lightly edited collection of recent comments I’ve made on social media, which I think of as my public scratch pad. I find knowing I’ll revisit my posts to be a positive and mellowing influence on my social media activity. I mostly hang out on Mastodon (at post.lurk.org/@disquiet), and I’m also trying out a few others. And I generally take weekends off social media.

▰ Afternoon trio for passing bus, passing plane, and passing person singing to self

▰ Me: It’s incredible what you can do with merely a Teensy 4.1 and access to a 3D printer.

Also me: I can’t believe entire days have to pass before items arrive by mail.

Then: Me slaps me upside the head. 

Exit, pursued by a bear — which symbolically represents self-flagellation regarding impatience.

▰ Been a few years. If you’re headed back in time, please tell late-teens/early-20s Marc that in the future he’ll live a few blocks from Golden Gate Park where, quite often, Nick Lowe will perform (for free!) as part of the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival. Also this year: Emmylou Harris, Lucinda Williams, and Rosanne Cash (and, admittedly, a buncha people I’ve never managed to dig, but such is festival life).

▰ I have many favorite spots in the art museum at Stanford. In first place must go this statue, which is “a copy of a copy,” and the sculptor of which apparently lived backward in time (1935–1892).

▰ That was bizarre. I got some post directed at me from what was apparently a scam account claiming my Mastodon account had been shut down due to copyright infringement, and when I clicked on the post to see more details, it disappeared, likely because some Mastodon security apparatus removed it, or perhaps because the scammer backtracked.

▰ Finished reading one novel this week, but it’s one I’m editing, so I won’t identify it. Also read a bunch of comics, though not enough to round up to a graphic novel. And maintaining pace on Blood Meridian, Moby Dick, and one other.